When is National Sticker Day?
Friday January 13thSticker Day, January 13th, recognizes all the ways stickers brighten up a page or send a special note. The day honors all things stickers, from custom printing of them to sharing stickers.. Every sticker has a tale.
Historians cite the European merchants in the 1880s as the first to stick labels to their products, in an attempt to sell their products and wares to passersby.
These smart, pre-industrial entrepreneurs used gum paste to make the labels stick and stick, and, well, stick: hence "stickers." By the 1900s, a sticker-specific paste had been invented and was widely used, most notable on stamps, which dried and then re-apply when moistened.
R. Stanton Avery, who was born on that day in 1907, was the subject of the observance. Avery, the original designer of the adhesive label with removable backing, was Avery.
